It's time for a Riley upgrade. For some
reason, I've been recruited to try on a
exoskeleton from Hypershell, the Hypershell Pro X. And actually, it kind
of makes sense because I am the person in the office who probably does the
least amount of physical activity. Uh, so this is perfect for me. It's supposed
to make you stronger while using less effort. Uh increasing
endurance mostly in the legs. If I'm have to do anything with the arms, I you
know that's that's a different that's a different thing. But this is uh going to
help with my running with cycling all the things that I don't do. So thanks to
Hypershell for sponsoring this video so that I can become a better version of
myself maybe. But in order to actually upgrade myself, first I have to take it
out of the box. So let's see what's in here.
Ah. Ooh. Nice. Okay. So, it the the
exoskeleton folds into sort of a like
gaming laptop sized uh form here, which is pretty nice. And
it's actually not too heavy. Apparently, it's 1.8 kg, which is about 4 lb. Oh,
wow. And it just kind of unfolds like that. I can imagine myself in there. I
can imagine what it's going to do to me. Okay, here we have one of the two
batteries. I believe the other one's already installed in there that will
provide 800 watts of power to the
Hypershell e assist system. Uh, that's
going to make me a better human being. In the bottom here, okay, user manual.
There's instructions that I'm sure are important. And then right here there's a
USB charging cable so you can recharge
the batteries after you plug them in. And that is it for the case. So let's
look at the exoskeleton itself. So we've
got the kind of waist part here with some padding on it. And then these leg
attachments that rotate like that. We
have here there's a USBC port and directly under that is the battery. And
it comes off like that. And then you to swap it out and
reload. Boom. Oh, that felt good. You can reload yourself with this. We got
these clips here on the back that I'm
guessing are used for adjustments of
some kind. We'll figure that out when I put it on my butt. And on the right side
here is the control button which you're going to use to enable and disable the
assistance and switch between the various modes which we will look at
after we download the app as this
special little thing told me to do. And I always do what I'm told. So oh I
didn't even notice this before. There are washing instructions on here. So I
guess you can just throw this whole thing in the and don't do that. Um
apparently there are screws here. Here. Can you see those? So, you can unscrew
the fabric part and then do not throw it
in the washing machine. It says wipe to clean, dry flat. So, it's still not But,
you know, you never know until you try. So, don't do it. Okay. So, I've
downloaded the app. I've logged in and now it's asking me to put in my body
index to evaluate my suitability for
this product and recommend the leg pull adjustment position. Okay. So, I'm going
to put my data in here. Okay. So, according to my measurements, it says
that I should adjust the hip levers to position
three. Oh, there we go. Okay. Tight hip cl buckle up hip belt. Okay. Well, it's
happening. We're putting it on. We're doing it. Buckle up the hip belt. Okay.
I think I got to loosen these. Okay. I already feel like I'm kind of in a
sci-fi situation where I'm like I've been contracted to to work the asteroid
minds and they have to put on your equipment to Except it's not like that at all. I'm just going to exercise.
Okay, so that goes there. Loosen a bit. And then tighten or
put that back in. Clip it. Okay. Yep.
Wow. I already feel the power. It's not
on. The placebo effect is going to be an issue for me. You could have got You
could have got somebody who's more used to moving their physical body around in
space to do this and they'd be already done the video by now. Okay, I think I'm
strapped in properly. This feels good. I don't feel
weird. I mean, it's a little unusual.
Ready? Hypershell activate. Okay, I did. Whoa. Whoa. It
just did something. Something just happened. Yeah, it's like a It's like
reacting to my
movements. This is This is what happened last time. It's already kind of like
following my movements. Like when I move my leg, it kind of wants to continue the
motion a little bit. What I'm going to do here is move my leg back and forth
twice. Any other anything that happens after that is
assisted. See, like it's it's I can stop
it, but I can also let it control me.
Search my device. Do it. Searching nearby devices. There it is. And no one
else has a hypershell. Okay, I'm in eco mode now and it's
telling me to walk. Take a stroll in a safe area to
feel the power adjusted to your pace. I feel it. I feel it. It's moving
my legs. So, that was eco mode. And now you can single click the control button
to enter transparent mode, which makes it sound like a noise cancelling
headphones mode where it just kind of like pauses the active function, which
is what it's doing. So, it's just going to kind of like turn off the assistance.
And now I'm in transparent mode. Yeah, it's all me. This is all me. I'm still
very much myself. And when I activate it, that's going to be upgraded, Riley.
All right. Now, it's telling me to go into hyper mode. Press and hold for 2
seconds. The red LED means we're in hyper mode,
baby. Providing dynamic power for intense activities. All right. Whoa.
Yeah, that's stronger. Whoa. Whoa. Wow.
Yeah. Okay. All right. Yeah, we're moving. Oh, I could do anything now. I
could do any
sport. It kind of keeps moving for a second. You see that? It's alive. Within
eco and hyper mode, there are various
power levels. So, I'm in eco mode right now, but if I double click, it goes up
to another power level again and again. And so now I'm on
the fourth power level of eco mode, which is okay. Yeah, that's pretty
strong cuz I was only on power level number one of hyper mode. Oh my gosh. I
don't even want to know. Let's go into hyper mode. Oh, and I'm Okay, so it keeps the
power level between the modes. So this should
be this should be very strong. Whoa. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh my goodness. Whoa.
I could run. I could run across country.
I could do anything. I could do anything. All right. Okay. Oh, you want
to go back down? You want less power? Triple click to go down a
level. There we go. You know what? I'm going to keep it at power level two on
eco mode for now because eco mode will
have the best trade-off between battery and performance. Okay. Okay. So, to
power off, you have to double click and hold, and then we're off. Okay. All
right. I feel like I'm kind of getting the hang of this, so I'm just going to
take this for a little rip. I'm going to just run that way and run back, and I'll
report my findings. Are you ready? Oh, yeah. I can't
wait.
Whoa. I should run normally. I was like running on my tiptoes. I don't think
you're in the right mode. I'm in eco mode. I can feel it. It's helping me.
Okay, so for comparison, I'm in transparent mode now. There's no power.
I'll just see what this feels
like.
Whoa. Okay. So, that's that's funny.
That's funny because when I ran in eco mode with it powered
on, it felt like I was just running normally and I was like, "This is fine.
This is okay." And then running just now, I was like, "Why am I so weak?"
Like I'm not joking. I'm not joking. I was kind of like what? It's like I
forgot how to run for a second. So now I'm going to power it on and become
myself
again. Yeah, it's okay. That's, you know, honestly, it's a little it's a
little it's a little weird. It's it's easier to run with
this. And maybe it's because when I'm running with it powered off, I have this
thing on me. But again, you know, it's not very heavy. It just feels like I'm wearing a
fanny pack backwards. You know, the cool way. One more time on that circuit in
power in a hyper
mode. Yeah, that feels good. So, the Pro
X is able to kind of keep up with my movements because it has this AI based
motion engine in it. So, it's kind of got some models of how people walk and
it's adapting to how you move to kind of like predict your next move. I'm going
to move my leg up and then it kind of keeps moving for a second after I stop
moving cuz it's like, yeah, humans don't do weird stuff like this. This doesn't
it's not what they do. So, you can have it automatically kind of adapt to what
you're doing or you can enable a
specific mode in the app. There are separate modes for walking, going up
hills, upstairs, gra all these other things. Or you can just set that to auto
uh and it'll, you know, that that's preferable rather than opening your app
every 2 seconds depending on whether you're going up or downstairs. But for
this purpose, I'm going to enable upstairs mode just to
see. Wow. Okay. This
is I feel like that was It's Look at
this thing wanting to
move. See, but like even when I stop moving, it's kind of like, are you sure
you want to stop moving though? You could get even more healthy than you are. Okay. Activate downstairs mode. Oh,
this is experimental though, so watch out. Hypershell says that this can give
me up to a 40% boost in leg strength, up
to a 30% reduction in physical exertion,
and offset 30 kilos, which is about 60 lbs or so of weight. Um,
so I do actually feel like I'm light as a feather right now. This is kind of
interesting till it kind of like activate the most power. You have to do
a big motion and then it'll start moving. But then if I just do little
moments, little movements, it'll just be like, "Oh, you're just wiggling." It's
not here to help you wiggle. Even though that seems to be my
primary thing that I want to do with it. You want to race? Yeah. Yeah. Quick
note, while you're just walking normally, you probably want to not be in
max power mode because it is wanting me to walk like this. Ready? Here we go.
Three, two,
one. I haven't run.
I haven't run in so long. I feel like you you had a better start. One more
time. One more time. Okay. Ready? Three,
two, one.
Okay, I was closer.
Do you see that? I kept up with him that time. You just have a better You have
better acceleration.
Oh, what? You guys drove to the other Labs building? I just ran and it was no
problem in a little bit of rain because this thing has IP54 dust and water
resistance. So, it can handle that no problem. Okay, so let's
just Now, Hypershell says the Pro X can
handle a temperature range of 60° C to
-20°. So, it was a little cold outside. This thing would have been fine, but I
would not have been. I wanted to come inside to see whether the logistics team
needs any help, you know, lifting things cuz I'm so strong now. So, you know,
headquarters thought that you guys could use a little bit more muscle uh to move
stuff around. So, they've, you know, brought me in to kind of see whether you
got any heavy stuff that needs kicking or Oh, you can kick those. It's play
sand. I'm going to go max power. Is that okay, Alex? Just careful though. I have
to warm up. See, now it's now it's helping
me. That was actually I think it helped.
So, this is going to help. This is helping you. I'm helping. Yeah. Yeah. If
you if you get it out of here, you're helping.
Well, now it doesn't really feel Now it feels the same as as holding a bin of
sand. But let's see here.
So, we've used eco mode and hyper mode and transparent mode, but there's
actually a fourth mode on here called fitness mode. And this does the exact
opposite of what you would expect and want an exoskeleton to do most of the
time. It makes things harder so that you can work out and have some resistance.
I'm already feeling it and I feel like it's already it's it's betrayed me.
Before it helped and now it's it's stopping me. I'm at 25% power, but just
because I'm not going to use this for very long or I'll die, I'm going to move
it to 100% power. Oh
man, I feel like I'm Okay, that's really
interesting. I feel like I'm waiting through water. Like there's heavy
resistance right now. Or not maybe not water, but like
mud. If you want to make people excited online with your thick thighs, then this
is the way to do it.
Oh, hey. Hey
guys, this is Yeah, this would this would definitely, you know, it's not
going to help with uh many other muscle groups, I feel like, but with with for
your thighs. Yeah, big time. I'll say as well uh some people have said
that there's a greater force on the top
of your thigh than there is on the back of your thigh for both like when it's
both helping you and hindering you on
purpose in fitness mode. Like there's greater resistance
when I lift my leg up than when I put it down. It's a lot easier to go back than
it is to go forward. So anyways, I'm going to turn that off. But that option
is there if you're serious about getting thick. And I forgot to mention the app
has some stats for you to check out. Uh there's the battery percentage you can
check on. The 5.7 mi is the range that's
left with this battery charge. Uh it showed my speed, which is why I was just
testing it right there. And then down here we got your steps, the number of
steps and elevation gain,
which I think was when I jumped that high. exoskeleton helped a lot there. Uh
oh, and it's got a graph showing you like a how you've used the battery over
time. So, that's all there. Pretty cool. Okay, so I've been wearing this
thing for about 2 hours uh so far, and
according to the app, we've gone down in battery by about 20%. Now, I wasn't
running the entire time, thank God. But
if I was, uh Hypershell says that I could cover 17 1/2 km uh on a single
battery. they really believe in me. But if I had completely lost it and I just
wanted to keep running, uh the motor is rated for up to 2,000 km of constant use
if I have 115 batteries that uh I can
swap out constantly while running. You know, don't get don't get ideas in your
head. All right, I've had a lot of fun moving around in this thing today, but
I'm not exactly what you'd call the target market here. Uh, Hypershell is
one of the leaders in this powers suit industry, and they apparently have
10,000 active users, all of whom
probably have at least two Patagonia jackets. So, take their word for it. So,
these things start at $799. The model we have here, the Pro X, is $9.99. And if
you're interested, if you own a couple Patagonia jackets yourself, the link is
in the description. Check it out. And thanks again to Hypershell for
sponsoring this video. I have work to do at the other building. So, I'm just
going to just do a powered run back. Okay. See you later. Okay. Hey, thanks
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